Milbank

Litigation & Arbitration Group

Partner and Co-head of the New York office’s White Collar and Investigations Group

With nearly 27 years of experience prosecuting and defending white collar matters, Jamie represents and advises companies, boards of directors, board committees, and individuals in government enforcement matters, both criminal and civil, in a wide variety of subject areas. He also has substantial experience navigating parallel investigations by multiple government agencies (both domestic and foreign), conducting complex internal investigations, and advising on a variety of compliance issues and remedial actions.

Jamie also has substantial experience in private civil litigation, focusing primarily on securities and complex commercial disputes. He has defended five of the largest mutual fund complexes against excessive fee claims under the Investment Company Act of 1940, three of which he tried to victory in United States District Court in California and New Jersey. He also represented one of the world’s largest commercial banks in major litigation stemming from the Adelphia Communications bankruptcy, and several leading energy producers in international commercial disputes concerning LNG contracts.

From February 1998 to November 2005, Jamie served as an Assistant US Attorney, Criminal Division, in the Southern District of New York, where he led a variety of criminal investigations and successful prosecutions, focusing primarily on white-collar matters. He was a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Unit, where he handled cases involving accounting fraud, insider trading, and hedge fund manager bribery, and worked closely with SEC staff conducting parallel civil investigations. Jamie was also a member of the Major Crimes Unit, where he prosecuted health care, bank, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, sanctions, extortion, and obstruction of justice offenses, among others, and served as health care fraud coordinator. Jamie served as Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney for the Office as well, one of six supervisors in charge of overseeing briefing and argument of all appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As an Assistant, he handled numerous jury trials and appellate arguments. Jamie began his career in 1992 at Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance LLP), specializing in antitrust litigation.

Mr. Cavoli received his J.D. from Albany Law School and his B.S. from Siena College.